Getting your show on the road to higher education can be as simple as watching your favorite program when you enroll in telecourses to be offered during the spring semester through Millard Fillmore College, UB's continuing-education and summer-sessions division.

Two courses, "Nutrition Pathways" and "General Psychology," will offer three credit hours. The third, "American Cinema," will offer four credit hours. The courses will air from Jan. 20 through May 4 on educational-access channels via TCI/Buffalo, Adelphia Cable and Lockport Community Television.

Students enrolled in telecourses are required to attend an on-campus orientation session to be held before Jan. 20.

Class size is limited. To register, or for more information, call 829-2202.

The courses:

– "American Cinema" (DSM 108, History of Film II) will provide students inside information through interviews with more than 150 Hollywood studio executives, directors and cinematographers. Also featured will be more than 300 clips from great American movies, covering the classical Hollywood style, the studio system, the "star system," film noir, the Western, romantic comedy and film in the television age.

The course was produced by the New York Center for Visual History, KCET/Los Angeles and the British Broadcasting Corp. for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting System.

Brian Henderson, professor of media study, will provide additional study material and instructional support.

– "Nutrition Pathways" (NTR 108, Human Nutrition). Produced by the Dallas County, Texas, Community College District, this course follows a year in the life of three people to demonstrate how their nutrition choices affect their health and lives.

It covers such topics as the basics of nutrition, energy regulation and weight control, the effects of carbohydrate and fiber intake on health, lipids and health effects of fat, nutrition from pregnancy to aging, various health problems and relation to nutrition and consumer concerns. The instructor will be Peter Horvath, associate professor of nutrition.

– "General Psychology" (PSY 101). Developed by the California-based Coastal Community College, this course will feature a comprehensive survey of sensation, perception, learning and physiological psychology, as well as social, personality, abnormal, industrial and applied psychology.

The instructor will be Michael Henning, who teaches psychology in the Department of Social Sciences at Erie Community College-South.